Woodson v. Bailey

The injury sought to be redressed in this form of action is loss of consortium.

In the civil law the term consortium signified a lawful Roman marriage. Black’s Law Diet. “Consortium.”

In the early common law it was limited to the rights of the husband growing out of the marriage relation. In modern law it has come to denote the rights of either consort, and may be said to include those collective rights of either husand or wife resulting from and inherent in the marital union. These rights have been defined in this form of action to include the person, affection, society, and assistance. The…